Bug#785353: lintian: RfC: retiring hyphen-used-as-minus-sign
On Fri, May 15, 2015 at 8:29 AM, Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net> wrote:
> Package: lintian
> Severity: wishlist
>
> Hi,
>
> I am considering to retire the tag hyphen-used-as-minus-sign for the
> following reasons:
>
> * It seems to me that Debian is the one distribution that considers
> this a problem. Everyone else seems to ignore it - to my knowledge,
> including upstream.
>
> * It is not clear to me that Debian actually prioritises this
> problem. Some seem consider it mostly busy work.
>
> - It makes up 1/6 of all info tags and does not appear to be
> dropping significantly. It would be more, if we did not have an
> enforced "max 10 occurances per file"[1].
>
> - The tag has existed since 2004 (commit fb2e7de). To date there
> are still 2000 packages with the issue.
>
> Given no (strong) objections /and/ a reasonable plan for improving the
> situation, I intend to retire this tag in lintian/2.5.32.
Could we downgrade to pedantic ?
Bastien
> Thanks,
> ~Niels
>
> [1] Like:
> usr/share/man/man1/arj.1.gz:408
> [... 8 occurances collapsed ...]
> usr/share/man/man1/arj.1.gz:851
> usr/share/man/man1/arj.1.gz 26 more occurrences not shown
>
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